Buzz Aldrin sends message to Mars from Stonehenge.
then later in the week...Today he visits Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope in Cheshire UK.
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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, has sent a "message to the Red Planet" from Stonehenge.
The 85-year-old donned a T-shirt urging travel to Mars as he was snapped striking a Superman pose in front of the pre-historic monument.
Following his Wiltshire visit, he tweeted: "While at Stonehenge I decided to send a message to the cosmos."
The veteran astronaut has called for renewed efforts to not only send a manned mission to Mars but colonize it.
Jessica Trethowan, from English Heritage, said there had been several enquiries about whether the image was real.
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Buzz Aldrin was the second man to set foot on the surface of the moon, after Neil Armstrong, in July 1969
"Someone asked if it had been Photoshopped, but it is real," she said.
"It was a private visit for him and his family. We were told about it a week or so ago and everyone was very excited about meeting him."
After a tour of the ancient site, the charity said Aldrin had asked "where we hide the aliens".
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Buzz Aldrin Reunited with Hasselblad 'Moon Camera' on UK TV
at Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Cheshire UK.
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin will enjoy a sentimental reunion with a Hasselblad 500EL 'moon camera' next week on live UK television. Aldrin will be part of the BBC 2 Stargazing Live show with Brian Cox and Dara O Briain – and he will use the specially adapted 500EL Data Camera, complete with a 39 Mpix CCD digital back, to take pictures on location at Jodrell Bank and in the studio. The programme will also mention the $30 million Google Lunar X competition in which private teams must land a robot on the moon and send back HDTV 'mooncasts' – by the end of next year. The show will air on BBC 2 on Wednesday, 18th March.
Actually, it is rocket science
Buzz Aldrin, legendary former astronaut and the second man to walk on the moon will enjoy a sentimental reunion with a Hasselblad 500EL 'moon camera' next week on live UK television.
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Aldrin will be part of the BBC 2 Stargazing Live show with professor Brian Cox and presenter Dara O Briain – and he will use the specially adapted 500EL Data Camera, complete with a 39 Mpix CCD digital back, to take pictures on location at Jodrell Bank and in the television studio.
BBC assistant producer Chris O'Donnell said: "We want to reunite Buzz with this camera – which is in itself an historic artefact. It will be a nostalgic reunion and once he has familiarised himself with it we hope he will take some shots during the day. We also plan to use the camera to embrace important scientific points with our experts. Photos taken on the moon with the Hasselblad are incredibly important in the quest to understand how the moon was formed and conditions in the early solar system."
He added: "Buzz will answer questions as part of the viewer feedback and I am sure they will include questions about which are his favourite pictures – and which shots he was actually required to capture by NASA."
The programme will also mention the $30 million Google Lunar X competition in which private teams must land a robot on the moon and send back HDTV 'mooncasts' – by the end of next year.
Said O'Donnell: "One of the milestone prizes on offer is an extra $5 million for pictures of Apollo artefacts on the moon – which of course would include the Hasselblad camera that astronauts left on the surface."
Watch the show (broadcast in two back to back episodes) on BBC 2 on Wednesday March 18. (Also available on BBC iPlayer immediately after broadcast until seven days after the final show.)
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Buzz Aldrin at Jodrell Bank on a visit to the UK.
Buzz was the main guest on the UK TV Program Stargazing Live and talking about and answering questions about his Apollo 11 event with Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain .
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It was interesting to see him discussing certain things and to observe him answering certain questions and to watch his body language and to try and read his responses and reactions to guess if he was being fully truthful or trying to evade certain things that seemed tricky areas and maybe were uncomfortable to him...such as with ref to the Van Allan Belt and radiation.
Especially Now after all this time and now hes older and may be more vulnerable to making more mistakes..
IF they never did go to the Moon, I would have thought that it would have been quite a mental strain for the astronauts who were willing to openly talk about their adventure...
Could they continue to cover things up as more and more people become aware that it could have been possibly a hoax..
and may be asking harder and harder questions to them..
It seems Buzz still seems to be quite convincing that the Apollo trip did occur..
But maybe the questioners did not question him as deep as they could have.. and maybe they are also part of the cover up..
Having said that, it is still hard to think after seeing him, that they did not go to the Moon, especially now when they are talking about going to Mars..
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